GYETK: COASTAL FUSION AND ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE FROM A TS'MSYEN KITCHEN

Engage in the natural gifts of the Pacific Northwest Coast through 60 nourishing recipes that feature traditional Ts’msyen foods, ancestral knowledge, land-based stories, and ecological wisdom.

Gyetk (pronounced gy-e-tk and meaning “to feed the people”) immerses readers into the rich food traditions, knowledge, and relationships that have sustained the Ts’msyen (Tsimshian) people for millennia along the Pacific Northwest Coast. Drawing from the authors’ lived experiences practicing a land-based lifestyle, as well as their backgrounds in Indigenous food sovereignty, health and well-being, and cultural research, Gyetk weaves together modern culinary fusion, traditional knowledge, and scholarly insight. Through 60 beautifully photographed recipes, the book follows the Ts’msyen seasonal round, weaving together ancestral foodways, traditional ecological knowledge, dietetic perspectives, and thoughtful harvesting practices—inviting readers to feast in relationship with the natural world.